The Top 10 Metal albums by year:

Floyo Mounier · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2013 10:19 am

Nesquik wrote:

Actually wait. Why is Drudkh at #2?

Agreed, as said it be better to switch that with Below the Lights

thejew wrote:

1. Mastodon - Leviathan
2. Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
3. Isis - Panopticon
4. Enslaved - Isa
5. Converge - You Fail Me
6. Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
7. Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
8. My Dying Bride - Songs of Darkness, Words of Light
9. Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
10. Cult of Luna - Salvation

Others to consider: Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum; Orphaned Land - Mabool; Jesu - Jesu; Exodus - Tempo of the Damned; Ensiferum - Iron; Behemoth - Demigod; Wintersun - Wintersun; Sunn O))) White2; Necrophagist - Epitaph; Rammstein - Reise, Reise

Panopticon should definitely move to #2. I'd say Miss Machine did more for Metalcore than You Fail Me or is at least more popular. I'd actually put Wintersun in here, perhaps in place of that MDB album

JRA · **Joined:** Thu Oct 14, 2010 11:47 am **Posts:** 3704

Ashes of the Wake needs to be on here. Shadows Fall War Within should also be considered.

Floyo Mounier · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2013 10:49 am

JRA wrote:

Ashes of the Wake needs to be on here. Shadows Fall War Within should also be considered.

Definitely Ashes of the Wake, good call! Not really feeling The War Within

joe c · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2013 1:21 pm

Feedbacker, Anthems of Rebellion, and The Blessed Hellride don't belong on that list. If Feedbacker makes it it needs to be lower.

Nesquik · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2013 2:42 pm

1. Sleep - Dopesmoker
2. Enslaved - Forgotten Legends
3. Kamelot - Epica
4. Drudkh - Forgotten Legends
5. Nasum - Helvete
6. Black Label Society - The Blessed Hellride
7. Boris - Akuma no uta (or Feedbacker, but this one is probably more appropriate to a metal list)
8. Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires
9. Children of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll
10. Lost Horizon - A Flame to the Ground Beneath

imo

Woodgod · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:16 pm **Posts:** 468

As much as I love Traveller, I agree that it probably doesn't belong here. But I'll retract the statement if Age of Winters somehow makes the 2006 list (not that the albums are anything alike or aimed towards the same fanbase).

JRA · **Joined:** Thu Oct 14, 2010 11:47 am **Posts:** 3704

No way should Ashes of Empires be above Hate Crew.

1. Sleep- Dopesmoker
2. Enslaved- Below the Lights
3. Drudkh- Forgotten Legends
4. Boris- Boris At Last: Feedbacker
5. Kamelot- Epica
6. Slough Feg- Traveller
7. Black Label Society- Blessed Hellride
8. Arch Enemy- Anthems of Rebellion
9. Children of Bodom- Hate Crew Deathroll
10. Machine Head- Through The Ashes Of Empires

This is fine, let's move on 2004

Nesquik · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2013 6:22 pm

It isn't fine. There is still a lot of disagreement on this.

thejew · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2013 6:37 pm

1. Sleep - Dopesmoker
2. Enslaved - Below the Lights
3. Kamelot - Epica
4. Drudkh - Forgotten Legends
5. Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires
6. Dream Theater - Train of Thought
7. Children of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll
8. Boris - Feedbacker
9. Lost Horizon - A Flame to the Ground Beneath
10. Idk. Between the Buried and Me - Silent Circus maybe? or that Nasum album.

Blessed Hellride shouldn't be here. Don't think Traveller should either. Or that Arch Enemy album.

Nesquik · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2013 6:39 pm

I would put Arch Enemy and Black Label on before Katatonia and Dream Theater (lolwut?)

thejew · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2013 6:41 pm

Nesquik wrote:

I would put Arch Enemy and Black Label on before Katatonia and Dream Theater (lolwut?)

Why not Dream Theater? Hugely popular like most Dream Theater albums. It was also the first of DT's newer crunchier (and less symphonic) sound. Removed Katatonia because that was a bad idea.

JRA · **Joined:** Thu Oct 14, 2010 11:47 am **Posts:** 3704

Train of Thought didn't influence jack shit. and Ashes of Empires at #5? I'm starting to think you all are Machine Head fanboys.

thejew · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2013 7:44 pm

This year, 2003 doesn't have enough albums to fill out a proper top 10. You're going to have an album that's likely only worthy of a 9 or 10 spot taking up a 5 or 6 spot.

joe c · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2013 8:15 pm

1. Sleep - Dopesmoker
2. Enslaved - Below the Lights
3. Kamelot - Epica
4. Drudkh - Forgotten Legends
5. Children of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll
6. Lost Horizon - A Flame to the Ground Beneath
7. Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn
8. Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires
9. Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye (decided to include this since it is second only to The Sham Mirrors in popularity within the avant-garde metal clique)
10. Septicflesh - Sumerian Daemons

thejew · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2013 8:18 pm

joe c wrote:

1. Sleep - Dopesmoker
2. Enslaved - Below the Lights
3. Kamelot - Epica
4. Drudkh - Forgotten Legends
5. Children of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll
6. Lost Horizon - A Flame to the Ground Beneath
7. Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn
8. Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires
9. Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye (decided to include this since it is second only to The Sham Mirrors in popularity within the avant-garde metal clique)
10. Septicflesh - Sumerian Daemons

I'm fine with this.

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